From Findings to Action: How SecurityBridge Is Bringing Trusted AI into SAP Security

SAP security remains one of the most complex and expertise-driven areas of enterprise IT. Organizations face thousands of technical findings across custom code, configurations, interfaces, and authorizations—yet translating those findings into clear priorities and actionable remediation often requires scarce and highly specialized SAP security expertise.

In this interview, Ivan Mans, Co-Founder & Board Member at SecurityBridge, discusses the launch of the SecurityBridge AI Companion, the first AI-powered security assistant purpose-built for SAP. He explains how proprietary SAP security intelligence, context-aware risk analysis, and natural-language interaction are reshaping how SAP teams understand threats, prioritize risks, and respond with confidence—without sacrificing trust, governance, or human oversight. The conversation also explores how AI can augment SAP security teams at scale as organizations prepare for an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Q: SecurityBridge positions the AI Companion as the first AI-powered security assistant purpose-built for SAP. What specific gaps in existing SAP security tools or workflows led you to develop this solution?

A: In our opinion, existing SAP security tools (including SAP’s own) leave critical gaps between SAP security expertise, data findings and the actions that must be taken to mitigate/remediate.  Yes, tools may tell you there are 1.000+ findings but where to start?  To take a risk based approach, with recommendations to perfectly align to your environment, AI paves a much more effective road to secure SAP operations.

Q: SAP security is often described as highly complex and expert-driven. How does the AI Companion help reduce dependency on scarce SAP security specialists while maintaining high accuracy and trust?

A: SecurityBridge was purpose-built to uncover and manage the complexity of SAP security in large enterprise environments. Over the past decade, our engineers have systematically captured their deep SAP security expertise in a central knowledge base, which has evolved into one of the most comprehensive repositories of SAP security intelligence available today.

By combining the results of automated SAP system scans with this extensive, continuously enriched knowledge base, the SecurityBridge AI Companion delivers context-aware, actionable guidance. The result is a powerful security assistant that helps organizations prioritize risks, accelerate remediation, and measurably strengthen the security posture of their SAP landscape.

Q: The AI Companion is trained on SecurityBridge’s proprietary SAP security knowledge base. Can you explain what differentiates this knowledge base from general AI models or publicly available security data?

A: There are two fundamental challenges in SAP security today.

First, critical SAP security knowledge is highly fragmented, siloed, or locked away in individual expertise, and is therefore not publicly accessible or consistently reusable.

Second, organizations are understandably reluctant to expose their SAP security posture to generic AI models, where sensitive information risks being reused for model training, effectively turning the customer into the product.

The SecurityBridge AI Companion addresses both challenges. It is built on a continuously evolving, curated knowledge pool to which our customers and partners contribute, without sharing sensitive system data. By securely and contextually blending this collective expertise with each customer’s SAP security insights, the AI Companion delivers trusted, purpose-built intelligence for SAP security, without compromising confidentiality.

Q: One of the key promises is real-time explanation of security alerts. How does this change day-to-day incident response for SAP teams compared to traditional alert-based security tools?

A: Traditional SAP security tools are alert-driven, manual, and slow, producing raw technical findings that require extensive interpretation. SecurityBridge shifts this model to actionable, trustworthy alerts that are context-aware and self-explanatory, grounded in deep SAP business and security knowledge and validated against real SAP system context.

Q: Natural-language interaction is central to the AI Companion experience. What types of questions are customers already asking during pilots, and which use cases are generating the most value?

A: Answering that question alone does not require AI. The real value emerges when those issues are interpreted in the context of the customer’s specific SAP security posture, clearly explaining why they matter, how they can be exploited, and what to do next.

SecurityBridge blends real-time system insight with deep SAP security knowledge to deliver clear, prioritized risks and a concrete remediation path forward. Instead of commissioning a multi-week manual audit, customers can ask SecurityBridge to generate an up-to-date, contextual security assessment and a practical roadmap on demand.

Q: The platform not only explains risks but also recommends remediation actions. How do you ensure that these recommendations are context-aware and aligned with each customer’s SAP landscape?

A: Each SecurityBridge customer maintains a dedicated, shielded SAP vulnerability database, covering areas such as missing patches, configuration weaknesses, code security issues,  vulnerable or exposed interface endpoints and much more. This information is highly sensitive and cannot be fed directly into an AI model.

To address this, SecurityBridge applies context-preserving anonymization. Sensitive details are abstracted while retaining the technical and functional context required to deliver accurate, meaningful, and actionable recommendations without exposing customer-specific security data.

Q: AI in cybersecurity often raises concerns around reliability and over-automation. How do you balance AI-driven guidance with human oversight in critical SAP security decisions?

A: Today, the SecurityBridge AI Companion operates in an advisory role. All insights, recommendations, and actions remain fully human-controlled. We deliberately do not allow the AI to make unattended decisions or perform automated remediation, ensuring that accountability, governance, and operational control stay firmly with the customer.

Q: The AI Companion is included at no additional cost within the standard SecurityBridge subscription. What role does this decision play in your broader product and customer success strategy?

A: There was a time when installing a radio in a car was a paid option; today, it is a standard expectation. The same evolution applies to our AI Companion, but AI gets adopted at a much faster pace. It is not a separate novelty, but a logical and natural progression of the SecurityBridge platform, further enhancing and reinforcing the value we already deliver to our customers.

Q: Looking ahead to general availability in Q1 2026, what feedback from pilot customers has been most influential in shaping the final version of the AI Companion?

A: The SecurityBridge AI Companion is not a finished product. It is designed to continuously evolve and improve over time. While it operates in an advisory role today, its long-term vision is to become a persistent security capability that can monitor, harden, and intercept threats 24/7 at machine speed, always under appropriate governance and control.

Q: More broadly, how do you see AI transforming SAP security over the next three to five years, and what role do you envision SecurityBridge playing in that evolution?

A: AI will play a critical role in addressing the shortage of skilled professionals by augmenting human expertise, not replacing it. It allows teams to focus their skills on areas where human judgment, accountability, and creativity remain essential, while AI handles analysis, correlation, and scale in areas where automation is both safe and effective.